Informality of Housing Production: Rental Markets in Favelas and the Challenges for Land Regularization in Brazil

Abstract

Twenty-one papers explore criteria of success for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, focusing on the importance of stakeholder ownership and the creation of entrepreneurial ecosystems that can enable their sustainability. Papers discuss appropriate technologies for sustainable development; sustainability, development, and social justice--toward a new politics of innovation; renewable energy for development and climate change mitigation; Santiago de Chile and the Transantiago--social impact; informality of housing production--rental markets in favelas and the challenges for land regularization in Brazil; multiple innovations and urban development in Burkina Faso; the move toward sustainable postdisaster housing and building technologies--issues and challenges with special reference to India; ecomaterials in low-cost housing--connecting cutting-edge science with the grassroots; environmental impacts of building technologies--a comparative study in Kutch District, Gujarat State, India; the contribution of science and technology to meeting the challenge of risk and disaster reduction in developing countries--from concrete examples to the proposal of a conceptual model of "resiliencery vulnerability"; peri-urbanization and the vulnerability of populations to the effects of climate change in Southern Vietnam--innovating solutions in research; perceptions of rain-fed lowland rice farmers on climate change, their vulnerability, and adaptation strategies in the Volta region of Ghana; optimizing pastoral mobility based on mobile geographic information systems; data gathering and information dissemination for semiarid regions; application of the soil moisture model to Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)--a millet (Pennisetum glaucum) agroforestry system in Burkina Faso; a geoinformation system for land degradation evaluation in Nigeria; characterization and monitoring of deforestation in the protected areas of North Cameroon--analysis using satellite remote sensing in the Kalfou Forest Reserve; enhancing decision-making processes of small farmers in tropical crops by means of machine learning models; impact of the introduction of biofuel in the transportation sector in Indonesia; selling hours of solar lighting in the evening; and technological developments appropriate to the local context--lessons learned from the Decentralized Rural Electrification Project in Ouneine, Morocco. Bolay is Director of the Cooperation and Development Centre at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Schmid is Scientific Collaborator and Project Leader with the Cooperation and Development Centre at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Tejada is Scientific Collaborator with the Cooperation and Development Centre at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Hazboun is the Administrator of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Management of Development Projects, and the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Disaster Risk Reduction with the Cooperation and Development Centre at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Index.